From Brookland to Brecon Revised~ Adopted~
Fallenqueen2: So a huge thanks to Agentcherub for letting me adopt this story and repost it with a few tweaks and going on with it my way :)
So this is going to be set after Snakehead the other books haven't happened and at the end he agreed to become an official agent for MI6.
Thank you all SO much for the support! It means SO much to me, I just really hope this story lives up to all your expectations.
Disclaimer: I forgot about it in the other chapters, but no I don't own Alex Rider
Chapter Seven
"What the bloody hell happened to him?" Wolf screeched as he saw the state Cub was in, eyes closed and breaths coming in fast and irregular.
"Some one tried to kill him." Yassen stated as if easy to see, now normally Wolf would have went off on anyone who talked to him like that, but the look on Snake's face made him pause.
Snake instantly went to Cub's side, his medic half kicking into overdrive as he took in Cub's pale complexion, his fast, irregular breathing and the copious amounts of blood that was seeping from a bullet wound from his left hip and a slow stain of blood from right above his heart. Snake snapped into action, successfully cutting Wolf off before he could start yelling at Yassen.
"Eagle, Wolf run to the infirmary and get some help!" Eagle and Wolf were off running before Snake finished speaking. "Fox, keep pressure on his wound." Fox quickly stripped off his combat jacket, made it into a square and using both hands placed it over the bullet wound and put pressure on it, trying to stop the blood flow.
"What can I do?" Yassen asked softly, Snake thought for a moment.
"Help me take his shirt off, I need to know what is causing the bleeding on his chest." With help from Yassen, Snake managed to get Cub's jacket and shirt off, Yassen's, Snake's and Fox's eyes widened and throats closed up. Alex's upper torso was littered with scars, bruises and what drew everyone's attention was the bullet scar over his heart that was bleeding sluggishly.
"Shit, he was shot!" Fox exclaimed and started to swear colourfully under his breath about MI6 as he kept pressure on Cub's new bullet wound. Even Yassen seemed shaken, he had heard rumours that SCORPIA sniped him. Seeing it face to face was worse Yassen deemed. Snake did his best under his shocked circumstances, he was only shocked for a moment because of the place of the scar. OVER HIS FREAKING HEART! Snake using a swiss army knife from his pocket, tore Cub's shirt into long strands and with Yassen's help he wrapped Cub's old bullet wound as tightly as he could without cutting off his air supply. When that was done, Wolf, Eagle and some medics from the infirmary skidded up. Snake gave them a quick run down of his injuries and backed off to stand with the others who had backed off and watched in silence as the medics loaded Cub onto a stretcher and ran off with him. Fox looked down at his hands, still clutching his now blood soaked jacket in his blood covered hands. Blood. Alex's blood. The realization hit Fox like a truck and without a word he ran to the bathrooms and emptied his stomach before trying his best to wash the blood off his hands and jacket. He silently made his way to the infirmary to see Snake in a heated conversation with who Fox assumed was a lackey of MI6's at St. Dom's hospital trying to get Alex's medical file shipped up to BB. Fox knew from experience once Snake was in his medic mode no one could stop him so he backed away and sunk into a seat beside a paler than normal Wolf, the ever silent Yassen leaning against the wall beside the chair Fox just took, his eyes were trained on the double doors in front of him. A red light glowed eerily above it telling everyone that someone was in surgery. The whole waiting room outside the surgery was silent minus the hushed but angry tones of Snake on the other side of a door, seconds later Snake stalked in, phone away door slamming behind him.
"Did you get his medical file from St. Dom's?" Fox asked quietly as the medic took a seat beside Eagle across from Fox.
"Yeah, they are faxing it ASAP after they put me on hold." Snake grunted still annoyed that they put him on hold while one of his unit was on an operating table. Around 10 minutes later a solider rushed in, a file folder tucked under his arm. Snake stood up and the solider handed it over quickly.
"Wolf and Eagle. The sergeant wants you to report to his office for debriefing ASAP." The solider informed the 2 in question. Wolf grunted and followed the solider out, Eagle unusually silent followed his unit leader. Snake was now buried in Alex's medical file, small gasps of horror and strings of swearwords coming from his direction every so often.
"He will be fine, he's been in worse shape than this before." Fox told Yassen in almost a whisper, but he knew it got the russian's attention.
"I know, I saw him on some of his missions." Yassen sighed silently.
"I was with him on Dragon Nine, I found him by Bora falls and saved him from being killed in Bangkok." Fox informed the former SCORPIA assassin.
"I only heard bits and pieces of what happened on Dragon Nine with Major Yu." Yassen confessed.
"I can tell you a brief version from my end, Alex will have to tell you the rest on his own…" Ben said, running a hand through his hair and absently touched his shoulder where Yu had shot him Yassen's eyes followed the movement and realization dawned in them.
"You got shot while protecting little Alex." Yassen stated.
"Yes, and I would gladly take as many bullets for Alex again if it would save him." Ben nodded sagely. "I was recruited from the SAS by MI6, after some missions I was sent to Bangkok to find Royal Blue and Major Yu, but instead I found Alex. I had a bad feeling so I followed him a bit and protected him when I could. One day he followed me and I brought him to MI6's Bangkok HQ and he agreed to help us out. I didn't see him again because his tracker was not working, but when it came back online I was on the copter to gather him. He was camped out at the bottom of Bora Falls and had figured out Major Yu's plan. With his and the ASIS's help we took over Dragon Nine and Alex detonated the bomb so it couldn't be used again. In this chaos Major Yu shot me in the shoulder before I shot a man working with him, as I now know as Ash, Alex's godfather." Ben finished his tale to Yassen and now Snake who had tuned in near the start of his story.
"Once again, I thank you for looking out for little Alex while I was unable to." Yassen said, after nodding to himself.
"I will continue to look out for him." Ben stated sharply, Yassen quirked a small smile to the MI6 agent who sent one back in return. Snake just looked between the two, confused about what just happened, but gave up when he spotted the red light turn to a happy green glow he shot to his feet as did Fox. All 3 men turned to see the doors opening and a gurney being rolled out. Alex's head was turned to the left, his bangs falling across his eyes. He was pale even against the stark white sheets, an IV was fed into his left elbow, snow white bandages could be seen wrapped around his chest and a bit from around his hip. The 3 men moved out of the way as Cub was pushed past them into a private room and a doctor took their attention.
"How is he sir?" Snake asked handing the doctor a copy of Cub's medical file, who quickly read over it before turning to the men.
"Well he lost a lot of blood from that bullet wound, but we gave him a transfusion, removed the bullet and patched him up. He should make a full recovery and be out of here by Friday, Sunday at the latest." The doctor reported to the worried SAS/MI6 men in front of him.
"What about the old wound on his chest?" Fox asked worried, Snake looked down at the file in his hands, fingers clenching the pages tightly.
"The wound is only a few months old, from what it says here on his file… He was sniped from a long distance, he is very lucky to be alive right now." The doctor stated uncomfortably before he nodded stiffly at the men and rushed off to help another patient.
"He was sniped…" Fox whispered as he sank into his chair again, dropping his head into his hands, he had just thought Alex was shot, not sniped.
"Let's go see him." Yassen said holding his hand out to Ben, who looked up surprised but smiled and accepted the hand. The 3 men walked into the room Alex was placed in, pulling up chairs around his bedside, ready to wait for him to wake up.
